For almost 400 years, since the first English settlers began stealing land from the original inhabitants of North America, legal practice has been to deny couples of the same sex the right to marry....

Few events expose the utter hypocrisy of U.S. politicians’ grand words about democracy so starkly as their praise for the recently deceased King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. For decades U.S. imperialism and all the imperialist powers have given political, military and diplomatic support to the corrupt feudal family that rules Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest exporter of oil....

After being buoyed by a string of victories, the movement for the right to marry was set back Nov. 6 when the Sixth District Court of Appeals upheld bans on same-sex marriage in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee....

We are deeply saddened by the murder of Jennifer Laude, a 26-year old
transgender woman from the Philippines, and express our deepest condolences to
Jennifer’s family and friends. On October 11, Jennifer was found
strangled to death in a hotel room in Olongapo City, Philippines. An autopsy
report has shown the cause of death as “asphyxia by drowning.” The
suspected murderer, U.S. Marine Corp PFC Joseph Scott Pemberton, is currently
being held in detention aboard the USS Peleliu warship in Subic Bay.
...

San Francisco — A coalition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer groups held a protest on the theme “Prison Breaks, Not Prison Parties” on June 28 during Pride weekend here. It was meant to shame the website kink.com for holding a “Prison of Love Pride Party.” Participants had been invited to “get arrested and enjoy solitary confinement.”...

Boston – The $15-and-a-union struggle sweeping the country rolled through the streets of Boston on Gay Pride, June 14, as several union contingents paraded by hundreds of thousands of onlookers with banners and placards supporting the low-wage workers struggle and the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, United Steelworkers Local 8751....

Efforts are underway to stop the anti-woman group “A Voice for Men” from holding its first international conference in Detroit the last weekend in June. This “Men’s Rights Advocates” group, based in Houston, promotes male supremacy, sexism and sexual violence against women. It was designated a hate group in 2012 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate crimes against oppressed people in the U.S....

The origins of women’s oppression in the rise of class society and the
historic need for socialism were raised as well. Two of the speakers gave a
call to “Shut it down!” on April 1, the day when objectors to the
Detroit emergency manager’s bankruptcy plan of austerity and giveaways to
the banks will turn in their objections and rally outside the federal
bankruptcy court....

The atmosphere was electric and filled with optimism on
March 8 as a dynamic march took over the sidewalks of the East Village and then
went up Sixth Avenue toward midtown Manhattan. The march commemorated the 104th
anniversary of International Working Women’s Day....

“I’m a college graduate, African-American, and I’m
gay.” With these words spoken on Feb. 9, Michael Sam, an All-American
college defensive back with the highly ranked Missouri Tigers in 2013, could
potentially make history as the first openly gay male recruited to a National
Football League football team....

Despite bitterly cold temperatures, more than 100 people
— chanting “Not one more!” — protested Jan. 30 outside
New York Police Department headquarters in lower Manhattan to demand justice
for Islan Nettles. Nettles, an African-American transgender woman, was brutally
beaten in Harlem on Aug. 17. She died from her injuries five days later.

Eyewitnesses reported that a man named Paris Wilson attacked Nettles,
shouted anti-trans and anti-gay slurs, and beat her while she lay helpless on
the ground....

The Honduran people remain in a state of organized “tense calm” a day after the country’s Supreme Electoral Council (TSE) declared ruling National Party leader Juan Orlando Hernández the winner in the polls, supposedly defeating Libertad y Refundación (Libre) party candidate Xiomara Castro de Zelaya. Hondurans had turned out in record numbers to vote for Castro de Zelaya, and Libre has denounced the TSE for committing fraud in the elections, and is organizing its base, made up of all sectors of Honduran working-class society....

Across the country, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities celebrated two big victories. First, Illinois became the 15th state to recognize same-sex marriages. Then, the U.S. Senate passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to ban job discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity....

The 9th Annual Trans Day of Action took place in New York City on June 28,
called by TransJustice, a political group created by and for trans and gender
non-conforming people of color (TGNC POC). Endorsed by more than 100
organizations, the rally and march, which began at the Christopher Street
Piers, celebrated the long history of political activism of trans and gender
non-conforming people and also addressed the growing poverty and rise of
anti-trans bashings, especially toward women....

On Christopher Street in New York City, the Stonewall Inn opened early on
the morning of June 26. At this small, working-class bar in late June 1969, a rebellion against
police raids gave rise to the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
queer movement. Now, 44 years later and 10 years after that movement forced the
U.S. Supreme Court to outlaw “sodomy” laws that criminalized
homosexuality, a crowd gathered waiting for the news....

The following excerpted points of unity were initiated by TransJustice of
the Audre Lorde Project, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, trans and gender
non-conforming people of color center for community organizing....

The societal myth that the vast majority of LGBTQ-identified people in the
U.S. are white, affluent men who are disconnected from the day-to-day struggles
of working-class people has been completely debunked by a recent economic
study. The U.S. ruling class and the right wing use this myth to ostracize
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people and economically separate
them from the rest of society....

CNY Solidarity marched loud and proud at Central
New York Pride on June 15. Youth activists organized and led the contingent.
The number of marchers participating in the group doubled from the 2012
march....

This year’s Pride march in downtown Detroit on June 9 raised a timely
slogan: “Marching toward equality.” Most lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and queer people in Michigan have no legal protection from
discrimination — they can be fired, evicted or denied access to public
accommodations such as restaurants, hotels or health clubs. Only 24 Michigan
cities have protective ordinances. The most recently passed ordinance, in the
Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, could be overturned by a right-wing ballot
initiative. An anti-marriage amendment to the state Constitution is one of the
country’s most restrictive....

Honduras USA Resistencia and the Honduras Solidarity Network have issued a
call for Nationally Coordinated Days of Actions for Honduras on June 28. These
actions will commemorate the 2009 coup in that country and express solidarity
with the resistance movement in Honduras. The International Action Center and
other organizations have endorsed....

The following call was issued by Trans­Justice, a political group
for trans and gender nonconforming people of color. TransJustice, a project of
the Audre Lorde Project, “works to educate, agitate, and mobilize our
community and allies on pressing political issues we face.” ALP is a
lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, two-spirit and gender nonconforming people of
color community organizing center based in New York City....

To the cheers of thousands, queer liberation, anti-war, and Pfc. B. Manning
contingents marched in united fashion with the International Action
Center’s Stonewall Warriors in this year’s Boston Gay Pride March
on June 8. Banners and placards supporting wrongfully imprisoned
African-American transwoman CeCe MacDonald festooned the contingent.
Progressive African-American Boston City Councilor Charles Yancey, a candidate
for mayor, and openly gay Afro-Latino Francisco White, an at-large candidate
for City Council, marched along with the contingent....

On May 23, 61 percent of 1,400 voting members approved a measure to allow openly gay youth to participate in the Boy Scouts of America — one of the largest youth organizations in the U.S., with the participation of more than 2.6 million young people. The new membership policy, set to go into effect on Jan. 1, states that “no youth will be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone.”...

Despite many gains won through decades of struggle, members of the lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities are often victims of hate
crimes. When the crime becomes a murder, the victim is most likely a young
transgender woman of color. Three African-American transwomen were found
murdered, in April alone, in Baltimore; Oak Ridge, Fla.; and most recently in
Cleveland....

A period of rich ferment – the 1960s in the U.S. – with opposition
to the Viet Nam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the movement for sexual
liberation, revisited, as species beyond humans join forces with young
earthlings, now with empath power, and cooperate to change history. Worlds,
energy forms and loves collide with unexpected results. An exciting read that
is wise and full of intuitions on pain, survival, rehabilitation and change. --
Sara Flounders, Co-Director, International Action Center....

Please join AVP along with other community-based organizations, community
members, allies, and elected officials for a speak out and march in response to
the horrific anti-LGBTQ homicide of Mark Carson on Friday, May 17th in addition
to the widely reported anti-LGBTQ hate violence incidents in recent weeks. A
march will start at 530pm atThe NYC LGBT Center located at 208 West 13th Street
to West 8th Street and 6th Avenue. A rally and speak out will immediately
follow the march....

hen the great African-American baseball player, Jackie Robinson, broke the
color barrier of the then all-white, segregated Major Baseball League on April
15, 1947, as a Brooklyn Dodger, it was a historic first. It was even more
remarkable because there wasn’t a modern-day Civil Rights Movement at
that time to support his efforts. In fact, it would take another seven years
before the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott was launched to challenge Jim Crow
racism in Alabama and throughout the South....

An inspiring and electrifying meeting was held at the
Solidarity Center in New York City on April 25 featuring Mariela Castro
Espín, the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education
(CENESEX) in Havana, Cuba, and a deputy of the Cuban parliament, the National
Assembly of People’s Power. The meeting was sponsored by the
International Action Center. ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on same-sex marriage over two
days in late March, it signaled how far the fight for
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer rights and liberation has come. Mass
consciousness has changed. An ever-increasing majority of people in this
country now support same-sex marriage. Regardless of how the high court rules
in June, this trend will continue. One day soon the marriage battle will be
won....

In Michigan, only married couples, married individuals and single
individuals may adopt children. Same-sex couples are denied legal recognition
under one of the most restrictive anti-marriage laws in the country —
passed by the voters in 2004 — that has even been used to deny
union-negotiated health benefits to state workers’ same-sex partners.
Michiganians in same-sex relationships cannot jointly adopt children or adopt
the children of their partners....

The July 26th Coalition, a solidarity group that supports the Cuban revolution, hosted a March 13 evening of information and open dialogue with two representatives of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) in New York City. The women were here participating in events held at the United Nations and hosted by the Commission on the Status of Women during International Working Women’s Month....

Nearly two years after the New York City Lesbian Gay
Bi Trans Community Center first barred the groups Siegebusters and Queers
Against Israeli Apartheid from meeting there, the lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and queer community erupted in outrage in mid-February, when the
Center again denied a space request from QAIA, as it had continually done for
the last two years....

Pepe Palacios, a LGBTQ leader and activist from the
resistance movement in Honduras, spoke at an event hosted by the Venezuelan
Consulate here on Feb. 12. Palacios described the brutal government repression
in Honduras, as well as the courageous, unified resistance of the Honduran
people. The event was presented by the International Action Center and El
Colectivo Honduras USA Resistencia — Partido Libre. Palacios is traveling
throughout the U.S. as part of a national tour organized by the Honduras
Solidarity Network....

Minneapolis — Transgender activist and author Leslie Feinberg declared
in court here on Feb. 4 that she/ze was “not guilty” on a charge of
third-degree gross misdemeanor (property damage) for spray-painting “Free
CeCe Now” on the walls and pillars of the courthouse/jail in
Minneapolis....

Pepe
is traveling throughout the US as part of a national tour organized by the
Honduras Solidarity Network. Please come to learn about the brutal repression
being carried out against the LGBT community in Honduras. But also learn about
the heroic resistance of the Honduran people who are organizing against the
illegal coup of 2009 and for a new society. Since 2009, over 80 mainly
transgender women and gay men have been killed in
Honduras....

CeCe McDonald survived a white-supremacist, anti-woman, transphobic hate crime.
Today, she is in a cell where sadistic racist and anti-trans guards hold the
key. Now, the city of Minneapolis is re-charging Leslie Feinberg with
3rd-Degree Gross Misdemeanor for writing the peoples’ verdict “Free
CeCe!” on the jailhouse/courthouse walls on June 4, 2012.
...

Charlotte, N.C. — Volunteer activists with the March on Wall Street South coalition are in high gear mobilizing for a week of protest actions Sept. 1-6 around the Democratic National Convention. These events include a Festivaliberacion on Sept. 1, a march and rally on Sept. 2, and a Southern Workers Assembly on Sept. 3....

Chavela Vargas, born Isabel Vargas Lizano in the town of San Joaquín de Flores, Costa Rica, died at the age of 93 in Cuernavaca, México, on Aug. 5. A singer as well as a sex and gender rebel, Vargas emigrated to Mexico at the age of 14 and lived most of her life there as a naturalized Mexican citizen....

Organizing is in high gear for protests outside the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Charlotte, N.C., and Tampa, Fla., respectively. In Charlotte, the Sept. 2 “March on Wall Street South” will target the big banks that are headquartered in that city as well as the Democrats’ role in keeping up the status quo of the wealthy 1% or ruling elite....

This year, the International AIDS Conference is being held in Washington, D.C., a city with one of the highest HIV rates in the world. At 3 percent, the HIV rate in this country’s capital is close to that of Sub-Saharan Africa’s 5 percent rate. (unaids.org) This situation prevails despite the enormous wealth held by the 1% and the existence of a monumental academic and scientific establishment....

Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald, a 24-year-old African-American transgender woman from Minneapolis, was sentenced June 4 to 41 months in prison for defending herself against a brutal attack by neofascists who verbally and physically assaulted McDonald and her friends outside a bar in June 2011. McDonald, who courageously defended herself and her friends against anti-trans, anti-woman, racist slurs and violence, was the only one arrested, charged and jailed at the time....

On the evening of June 4th, Leslie Feinberg--renowned transgender activist and author of Stone Butch Blues and Trans Liberation--was arrested in solidarity with Chrishaun "CeCe" McDonald. CeCe McDonald is a 24-year-old African American transgender woman who was walking with a group of her friends in Minneapolis on the night of June 5th, 2011. As CeCe and her friends walked by the Schooner Tavern, a group of white bar patrons began shouting racist and transphobic slurs at them. One of the women in the group smashed her beer glass across CeCe's face. In CeCe's struggle to defend her life from this violent attack, one of her attackers died. CeCe was quickly arrested and charged with two counts of second degree murder. In May 2012, CeCe accepted a plea agreement to a reduced charge of second degree manslaughter by negligence, and on June 4th she received a 41-month prison sentence. On June 5th, 2012, she was transferred to a men's prison in St. Cloud, MN....

The following statement was given by Leslie Feinberg on June 4 prior to the sentencing of CeCe McDonald. Feinberg was arrested later that night at a protest outside the county jail in downtown Minneapolis....

June 5 — As Pride 2012 is being celebrated this June, bigotry and oppression against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals and communities — along with virulent racism — are alive and well across the United States....

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People today [May 19] released a resolution supporting marriage equality. At a meeting of the 103-year-old civil rights group’s board of directors [in Miami, Fla.], the organization voted to support marriage equality as a continuation of its historic commitment to equal protection under the law....

The second-degree murder trial of Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald in Minneapolis started April 30 and ended May 2. McDonald’s situation highlights the anti-transgender bigotry and racism rampant in society, as well as the inability of the “justice” system to mete out justice for the oppressed....

he following speech was given by the late Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, on Aug. 15, 1970, on gay and women’s rights. Shelley Ettinger, a lesbian activist, wrote on her blog, “Read Red,” about Newton’s speech: “I think it's important to remember this speech because the Black liberation movement and even the Black community as a whole are so often slandered as though they're somehow more sexist and/or homophobic than other movements or other sectors of society, and here we have a great revolutionary leader speaking out just one year after the Stonewall Rebellion, far earlier than almost anyone else.” In light of President Barack Obama’s recent announcement in support of same-sex marriage, we are reprinting in its entirety Newton’s historic speech that urged revolutionary class solidarity with these oppressed groupings. ...

Atlanta, Feb. 11 – Blustery, frigid winds buffeted the crowd gathered in support of Brandon White, a 20-year-old gay man whose videotaped beating at the hands of reputed gang members outside a corner store shocked millions of viewers nationwide. Just a week earlier, the slight youth was viciously attacked by three young men, who used anti-gay slurs as they punched and kicked him repeatedly, while two others videotaped the assault....

The struggle to free Chrishaun "CeCe" McDonald in Minneapolis deserves wide publicity and support. McDonald, 23, is an African-American transgender woman who was brutally attacked by racist, anti-lesbian/gay/bi/trans/queer bigots on June 5. As is often the case in a society permeated by racism, sexism and anti-LGBTQ bigotry and oppression, McDonald, the victim and survivor, was the only person charged after the attack. She goes on trial April 30 on charges of second-degree murder and intent to commit murder....

A significant legal victory for trans and gender nonconforming workers was
recently won in a case brought by Vandy Beth Glenn. A three-judge panel of the
11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously on Dec. 6 that Georgia
Legislative Services had discriminated against Glenn when it fired her in 2007.
Glenn went back to work on Dec. 9....

African-American lesbian activist, poet and writer Audre Lorde wrote that
“the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s
house.” Published in 1984, her statement is a perfect response to U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Dec. 6 announcement that the U.S.
will supposedly be championing the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and queer people around the world. Clinton gave her outrageously
hypocritical remarks at an event recognizing International Human Rights Day in
Geneva, Switzerland....

The scene was a perfect storm of organized chaos. Here
were the young and old, students and workers, immigrants and oppressed, all
addressing the failures of capitalism’s current worldwide crisis,
outlining the destructive forces of global banking systems and highlighting the
lack of communal values in a place that loves to cry patriotism....

These are hard times. There doesn’t appear to be any respite coming soon. The political atmosphere has shifted in response to the greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression. This crisis, because of how the changes in technology, communication and production have made the world smaller, is global in its impact....

The North Carolina House of Representatives voted 75-42 on Sept. 12 to place
a constitutional ban on gay marriage on the ballot for the 2012 state
elections. If Amendment One is ratified, it would permanently ban all same-sex
marriages in North Carolina, prevent private employers from providing health
insurance benefits to same-sex couples, and render null and void in this state
all same-sex marriages made in other states....

Nearly 300 people rallied April 25 in front of a Rosedale, Md., McDonald’s restaurant, which was the site of a vicious attack on a transgender woman several days before. The rally numbers made it the largest event to date in Baltimore County, Md., in support of the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer community....

In Michigan there is currently a struggle over whether or not to pass “anti-bullying” legislation. To define its opponents as “bigoted extremists” would be an understatement. Who could possibly stand in the way of protecting a child from assault, harassment and intimidation?...

Today marks the one year anniversary of the assassination of Walter Trochez, a human rights, LGBTQ and democracy activist in Honduras. His death, like those of many other activists, LGBTQ leaders, journalists, unionists and teachers has been nominally investigated by a police force that itself has been implicated in violence against civilians since the coup on June 28, 2009. Despite the efforts of the U.S. State Department, multinational corporations, the Government of Honduras and their lobbyists to portray the current situation as sporadic violence, attributable to generic 'crime' within a post-election return to normalcy, it is clear that targeted bloodshed and a culture of impunity has taken hold....

A United Nations Human Rights Council gathering in Switzerland heard testimony from oppressed groups inside the United States who exposed Washington’s official state policy of gross violations against peoples of color and workers in general....

The recent spate of suicides by young people who are lesbian, gay, bi or trans or perceived as such by their peers is heartbreaking. It is also a call to action.
We stand with all those stepping forward in solidarity with LGBT youth against the bashers, the bullies. We add our voices to the chorus telling our beautiful, precious children and teens: “Hang in there. It will get better.” But we say something else, too. Our message to the youth, LGBT and straight allies alike, is: Join us in the struggle....

Rutgers University held a silent vigil the night of Oct. 3 for 18-year-old
Tyler Clementi, a first-year student and serious violinist, who jumped off the
George Washington Bridge after he and a male friend’s encounter in his
dorm room was secretly streamed online. Clementi’s death is but one in a growing number of teen suicides....

Racism and ageism were themes for the keynote speakers at the Old Lesbians Organizing for Change national gathering here in July, and for the speakout sessions done in a format known as “fishbowls.” The 150 participants ranged in age from 59 to 87....

Hate crimes against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities
are far from rare in the United States. In many cases, it is not just
hate-filled bigots who commit these crimes, but the government itself....

On April 17, the openly Nazi group NSM held a rally at Los Angeles City Hall. Many groups, including socialist, anti-war and anti-racist organizations, mobilized to challenge their so-called right to free speech that motivates violence, racism and genocide against non-European peoples and the LGBTQ community....

Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba Agricultural High
School in the small town of Fulton, Miss., just wanted to do what millions of
high school students around the country look forward to every spring: get
dressed up, go to prom and have a great time. But McMillen is a lesbian. She
wanted to take her girlfriend to the prom. She wanted to wear a tuxedo....

A visit of the “Tea Party Express” to cities in the Midwest
— a region of the country that has been most devastated by the economic
crisis of capitalism — did not go unchallenged. Rather, activists and
community members confronted them at several stops to denounce the right-wing
attempt to divide working and oppressed people and to show that the racist,
sexist, anti-lesbian-gay-bi-trans, anti-immigrant, corporate-funded Tea Party
does not speak for working people....

Anti-abortion zealot Scott Roeder was convicted in Wichita, Kan., on Jan. 29
of the cold-blooded murder of Dr. George R. Tiller, a fearless, caring
physician who performed abortions for women in desperate circumstances, while
enduring great personal risk and paying the ultimate sacrifice. Roeder
testified that after he had stalked Dr. Tiller for months, Roeder walked into
the church where Dr. Tiller served as an usher and shot him in the face at
close range on May 31....

The discussion of this legal project, named Organic Law of
Gender Equality, represents a further advance of your Revolution and
demonstrates the wish to correct these inequalities and discriminations which
for decades have plagued our societies. We understand that it is not possible to have a society with justice and equality when some of the members of that society suffer discrimination, whether it is because of their age, the color of their skin, their ethnic origins, their sex or their sexual orientation....

For the better part of the last 75 years, revolutionary
peoples’ artist Irving Fierstein used his immense talent to depict the
many struggles of working and oppressed people for social and economic justice
and against imperialism. In the early 1980s Fierstein created a unique genre of
art—striking full-color revolutionary banners thoughtfully composed and
painstakingly painted by hand....

The plight and suffering of children and teenagers who are
subjected to sexual and other forms of abuse cannot be relieved by a
reactionary campaign to foment racism, anti-gay bigotry and hatred of gender
and sex variance....

The People’s Summit and Tent City in Detroit was by far one of the most amazing experiences I’ve ever had. It was like going to Cuba, or Venezuela, and seeing the level of solidarity that exists among the people in those countries—solidarity that is borne of the struggle to build, in the case of Venezuela, or retain, in the case of Cuba, socialism....

Type the words “Cuba Day against Homophobia” into Google’s search engine and you will find video clips and news stories about a festival on May 16 of this year in Havana and many other Cuban cities that raised public consciousness about the rights and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people....

On June 26, 2009, Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color and allies
will take to the streets of NYC once again and demand justice to let the world
know, that on the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, the rebellion is not over and
we will continue fighting for justice, raising our voices until we are
heard....

When there is no longer any need for a Harvey Milk School, when LGBT youths
don't have to fear for their physical safety, when repression and hiding
and discrimination are bad old memories, the work of Milk and the countless,
nameless others who battled for full rights will be complete....

As part of its effort to forge new ties, Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five held a meeting at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City June 2. Leaders from various organizations voiced their commitment to work on behalf of the Cuban heroes,...

From June 27 to July 1, Atlanta will host the first-ever Social Forum held in the United States. The U.S. Social Forum will gather thousands of grassroots and community activists from across the country who will engage each other in political discussion and strategy planning. The operating slogan for the five-day event is "For another world to be possible, another U.S. is
necessary."...

The Women's Fightback Network is a grassroots alliance of poor and working women, immigrants, disabled activists, students, elders and youth, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and transgender women--all standing together to protest budget cuts, racism, sexism and war. As women, we have a special place in the fight for equality and human needs....

We the undersigned--lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-nonconforming, and other activists fighting oppression based on sexuality, gender and sex--express our support for the right of the Black community in Brooklyn to decide to rename an avenue for the late Black community activist Sonny Abubadika Carson, who some called the "Mayor of Bed-Sty" for his long-time community activism....

Aug. 26, "Women's Equality Day," marks the day, 87 years ago, that women legally got the right to vote in the U.S. There was no equality for all women back then and today there is still no "equality" to celebrate....